BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.
About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

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[Einstein@home] Einstein@Home probes the Galactic center gamma-ray glow

The results from an Einstein@Home search for a proposed, hidden millisecond pulsar population near the center of the Milky Way have been published in The Astrophysical Journal today. The results include the discovery of four previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.

View article · Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:58:30 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3473640 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3473640 has terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:55:43 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3557820 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3557820 has terminated!!!

View article · Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:52:16 +0000

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BOINC client 8.2.8 released
Version 8.2.8 of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.
26 Nov 2025, 3:24:09 UTC · Discuss

BOINC client 8.2.4 released
The 8.2.4 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here. The new version supports Docker apps - an important step for BOINC.
10 Jul 2025, 21:46:02 UTC · Discuss

Lines of code visualization
Vitalii made a visualization of the number of lines of code in BOINC going back to 2002.
16 Mar 2025, 9:07:20 UTC · Discuss

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